Motivational Quotes

Mind

Texas is not a state -- it's a state of mind.

- Steinbeck, John

Best Quotes about Mind

Great athletes train their minds as well as their bodies. There are various mental conditioning techniques many use when preparing for an event. Perhaps the best known technique is visualization, creating a mental image not only of the desired result (the gold medal, a new world record, a hole-in-one), but also of every move that will be taken en route to the ultimate goal.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

Buckley, Lord

Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.

Dubay, S.

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

Ramakrishna, Sri

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

Dewar, Thomas Robert

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

Dyer, Wayne

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

Churchill, Winston

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What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

Rand, Ayn

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The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

Cioran, E. M.

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The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

Grass, Gunther

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The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness.

Freud, Sigmund

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Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Fuller, Buckminster

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I am not a disbeliever in those who have told me they went to bed in the evening with an unsolved problem on their mind and woke up in the morning to find, waiting for them there in their consciousness, the correct answer.

Hanson, Dr. Jean

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The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Kennedy, John F.

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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Dyer, Wayne

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Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

Philo

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He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

Syrus, Publilius

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Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Rico, Gabriele Lusser

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Your mind is what makes everything else work.

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

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Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

Brande, Dorothea

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I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The Brain is wider than the sky-.

Dickinson, Emily

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We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Jung, Carl

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You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Crane, George W.

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The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Wilson, Colin

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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Miller, Henry

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All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour comes that the mind is ripened.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.

Hamilton, Edith

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A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

Loos, Anita

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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

Terence

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A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Dyer, Wayne

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Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Madwed, Sidney

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It is now a generally accepted and scientifically well supported view that subliminal perception does occur-that people are capable of receiving and responding to information presented to them at levels below the threshold of conscious recognition.

Phillips, Maureen

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.

Jackson, Andrew

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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.

Armstrong, Edith

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We must realize that the subconscious mind is the law of action and always expresses what the conscious mind has impressed on it. What we regularly entertain in our mind creates a conception of self. What we conceive ourselves to be, we become.

Speare, Grace

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When one is rising, standing, walking, doing something, stopping, one should constantly concentrate one's mind on the act and the doing of it, not one ones' relation to the act or its character or value... One should simply practice concentration of the mind on the act itself, understanding it to be an expedient means for attaining tranquility of mind, realization, insight, and wisdom.

Ashvaghosha

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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

Baba, Meher

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There's nobody out there. It's all in here.

Pancoast, Mal

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

Chuang Tzu